Re: How to start up X directly, in a startx-like manner?

[Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>]

Holger Krull schrieb:
> Robert Latest schrieb:
>
> > I like to use cygwin in a self-contained, maximized window in which my
> > window manager runs (fvwm). Currently I start this by first opening a
> > bash shell and then typeng "startx", which then reads my .xinitrc and
> > does what I want.
> >
> > However, I'd like this to happen on a single click. I found
> > "startxwin.bat", but that just puts X-like windows on top of the
> > normal Windows desktop. It doesn't create the "cover-all" Windows
> > window with X inside. I played with the "-fullscreen" option inside
> > startxwin.bat, but at any rate, startxwin.bat doesn't honor my
> > .xinitrc
>
> Maybe putting:
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c -l 'run bash -c -l "Xwin.exe :0 & export 
> DISPLAY=:0.0; xterm;  fvwm2 &"
> in an Icon does what you want.
The closing ' missed the copy and paste, so the line should be
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c -l 'run bash -c -l "Xwin.exe :0 & export DISPLAY=:0.0; xterm;  fvwm2 &"'


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